Question

How can you create more employment in rural and urban areas?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

To increase employment in urban areas, we will need to carry out the following tasks

(i) Invest in basic industries which provide mass employment.

(ii) Improve local and inter-city transportation so that more people can be employed to work in the transportation industry.

(iii) Increasing vocational education courses, so that people educated for a vocation get jobs easily.

(iv) Give incentives for industry in urban areas to increase their capacity.

How to create more employment in rural areas ? Explain with examples. [CBSE Sept. 2011,2012]

Ans. (i) Diversification of agriculture: More than 60 per cent of our workers are employed in agriculture. But ‘our farmers are producing only limited crops. There is need to diversify agriculture. Farmers should be encouraged to adopt pisciculture, horticulture, animal rearing, etc., along with cultivation of crops.

(ii) Cheap credit : Most of the farmers depend on informal sources of credit, i.e., moneylenders, relatives, traders, etc., who charge a very high rate of interest. Government should encourage the commercial banks to provide loans to the farmers at cheaper rates.

(iii) Provision of basic facilities : Our rural areas lack the basic facilities like roads, transportation, banking, warehouses, markets, etc. The government should invest some money in these sectors so that the Indian villages can be linked to other markets. This activity can provide productive . employment to not just farmers, but also to others such as those in services like transport or trade.

(iv) Promotion of local industries and other activities : Another way to tackle this problem is to identify, promote and locate industries, especially the cottage and small- scale industries in semi-rural areas, where a large number of people may be employed. It also includes setting up a flour or rice mill to procure and process these and sell in the cities. In villages, near forest areas, honey collection centres can be started where farmers can come and sell wild honey.